Agency for International Development

News about Agency for International Development, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 12, 2015

Partner Vetting System, new screening project run by United States Agency for International Development designed to detect terrorists in foreign aid non-profit organizations, is criticized by aid groups that say vetting is intrusive and undermines their mission. MORE

May. 1, 2015

Pres Obama nominates Gayle Smith, senior White House official, to lead United States Agency for International Development; if confirmed by Senate, Smith would be in charge of government's response to humanitarian disasters and manage agency's $20 billion budget. MORE

Apr. 30, 2015

Team of renowned search-and-rescue workers from United States Agency for International Development travels to Bhaktapur, Nepal, to search for survivors of 7.8 magnitude earthquake, but team members are disheartened at finding none as window for survival closes. MORE

Jan. 27, 2015

United States Agency for International Development suspends International Relief and Development, one of its biggest contractors, due to questions on its spending oversight; nonprofit group works in Iraq and Afghanistan. MORE

Dec. 17, 2014

United States Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah says that he will step down in early 2015; he is seen as having revived agency and working well with Congress. MORE

Dec. 13, 2014

United States Agency for International Development reveals some of ideas that were submitted to Ebola 'Grand Challenges' contest, which sought to find new tools for healthcare workers on front lines of Ebola crisis; among ideas being tested are protective gear that zips like wetsuit, ice cold underwear to make hazard gear cooler and bug spray that kills or repels the lethal virus. MORE

Apr. 8, 2014

Rajiv Shah, head of the United States Agency for International Development, has set off a fierce debate over the way the agency operates and will face tough questions about his $20 billion budget in testimony to Congress; under Shah, agency has upended traditional foreign aid, using loan guarantees from American corporations to secure local financing and projects like creating social media site to try to foment unrest in Cuba. MORE

Sep. 12, 2013

Memo From Afghanistan; officials from State Department and United States Agency for International Development have begun publicly airing their grievances about John F Sopko, special inspector general for Afghan reconstruction, government watchdog charged with auditing their work there. MORE

May. 31, 2013

Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund is collapsing after two decades, apparent victim of mismanagement, insider dealings and lack of oversight by federal officials; expert's say fund's plight highlights wider problems bedeviling United States Agency for International Development, which financed fund. MORE

May. 2, 2013

Bolivia's Pres Evo Morales expels United States Agency for International Development, suggesting that it had conspired against his leftist government. MORE

Sep. 23, 2012

Russia's decision to terminate the United States Agency for International Development’s programs marks end of an extraordinary collaboration between the two cold war enemies; Russia has accused agency of meddling in its internal affairs; shutdown has stunned aid workers, infuriated American diplomats and left many nonprofit groups on the brink of collapse. MORE

Sep. 19, 2012

Russia orders the United States to end its financial support for a wide range of pro-democracy, public health and other civil society programs that are currently run in the country by the United States Agency for International Development; provocative decision to end two decades of work in post-Soviet Russia is an aggressive step by the Kremlin to halt what it views as American meddling in its internal affairs. MORE

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